23. “The idea seemed good to me, so I took twelve men from among you—one man for each tribe.
24. They turned and went up into the hill country, and they came to the Wadi Eshcol and spied it out.
25. They took in their hands some of the fruit of the land and brought it down to us. They also brought back word to us and said, ‘Good is the land that Adonai our God is giving to us.’
26. “Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of Adonai your God.
27. In your tents you grumbled and said: ‘Because Adonai hates us, He has brought us out from the land of Egypt to hand us over to the Amorites, to destroy us!
28. Where are we going? Our brothers have discouraged our hearts saying, “The people are greater and taller than we are! The cities are great and fortified up to the heavens! Besides, we have even seen the children of Anakim there!”’
29. “Then I said to you, ‘Don’t tremble or be afraid of them.
30. Adonai your God, who goes before you, He Himself will fight for you—just as He did for you in Egypt before your own eyes,
31. and in the wilderness, where you saw how Adonai your God carried you as a man carries his son, everywhere you went until you came to this place.’
32. Yet for all this you did not trust in Adonai your God—
33. the One who goes before you on the way to scout out a place for you to camp and to show you the way you should go, in fire by night and in the cloud by day.
34. “When Adonai heard the tone of your words, He was angry and swore an oath saying,